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... Pompey , and the cause of Rome against Cæfar , could never have stooped fo vilely low , as to celebrate a tyrant and a monfter in fuch an open manner . I know fome Commentators have judged that compliment to Nero to be meant ironically ...
... Pompey , and the cause of Rome against Cæfar , could never have stooped fo vilely low , as to celebrate a tyrant and a monfter in fuch an open manner . I know fome Commentators have judged that compliment to Nero to be meant ironically ...
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... Pompey , once the darling of Rome . Thou shalt , like a true Roman , weep over the " crime of the young tyrant Ptolemy ; and fhalt raife to Pompey , by the power of thy eloquence , a higher monument than the Egyptian pyramids . " The ...
... Pompey , once the darling of Rome . Thou shalt , like a true Roman , weep over the " crime of the young tyrant Ptolemy ; and fhalt raife to Pompey , by the power of thy eloquence , a higher monument than the Egyptian pyramids . " The ...
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... Pompey's ; and these last are particularly named , to express how many nations efpoufed the fide of Pompey . Those reckoned up in Gaul were only the places where Cæfar's troops had been quartered , and Lucan might with as great ...
... Pompey's ; and these last are particularly named , to express how many nations efpoufed the fide of Pompey . Those reckoned up in Gaul were only the places where Cæfar's troops had been quartered , and Lucan might with as great ...
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... Pompey and Cæfar , introduced in the First Book ; and how beautifully , and with what a masterly art , are they ... Pompey's dream , Cæfar's breaking open the temple of Saturn , the fiege of Marfeilles , the fea - fight , and the facred ...
... Pompey and Cæfar , introduced in the First Book ; and how beautifully , and with what a masterly art , are they ... Pompey's dream , Cæfar's breaking open the temple of Saturn , the fiege of Marfeilles , the fea - fight , and the facred ...
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... Pompey and Cornelia , in the end of the Book . It has fome- thing in it as moving and tender , as ever was felt , or perhaps imagined . In the defcription of the witch Erictho , in the Sixth Book , we have a beautiful picture of horror ...
... Pompey and Cornelia , in the end of the Book . It has fome- thing in it as moving and tender , as ever was felt , or perhaps imagined . In the defcription of the witch Erictho , in the Sixth Book , we have a beautiful picture of horror ...
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Æneid againſt amidſt arms Behold beneath blood bold breaſt Cæfar camp caufe cauſe chief cloſe command courſe croud Dæmon death diftant dreadful earth ev'n facred fafe faid fame fatal fate fcorn fear feas fecret feek feems feen fhade fhall fhore fhould fide field fierce fight firft firſt fkies flain flames flaughter fled flood foldier fome foon forfook fortune foul ftand ftill ftream ftrong fuccefs fuch fure fwelling fword Gaul gods hafte hand head heaven himſelf hoftile horrid impious labours laft laſt Latian lefs length loft looſe Lucan mighty moſt Nero numbers o'er paffage paſt peace Pharfalia Phocis plain Pompey Pompey's purpoſe rage reft rife rofe Roman Rome Scythian ſhall ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood Sulpitius Verulanus ſupplies ſwift taſk thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand trembling vaft vanquish'd Virgil whofe winds yield